Creativity is the mental ability to create new ideas and designs. Innovation, on the other hand, Means developing useful solutions from new ideas. Creativity can be goal-oriented, Whereas innovation is always goal-oriented. This bedeutet, dass innovation aims to achieve defined goals. The use of cloud services and technologies promises enterprise users many benefits in terms of more flexible use of IT resources and faster access to innovative solutions. That’s why we want to examine the question in this talk, of what role cloud computing plays for innovation in companies.